If you are using HP Proliant DL380 G7's for your vSphere 5.5 hosts, be aware of this potential PSOD issue and patch your hosts soon with this fix from HP.
potential PSOD issue
this fix from HP
--> Thank you Gostev for letting us know of this problem and fix :)

Hello,
I received an email showing the availability of Veeam Backup & Replication 7 Patch 3 :
Patch #3 (build 7.0.0.833) [February 12, 2014]
http://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/7-0-issues-patches-and-hot-fixes-t18243.html#p90554
Many bug corrections, performance optimizations are in the package, so what are you waiting for to download and install ???

Microsoft made available another update of a fix which improves cluster resiliency. I lost count now but believe this is the fourth try of Microsoft to fix a number of issues which are storage related.
One of the readers of my blog applied this latest hotfix KB2848344 and wrote me:
I’ve applied this fix on 2 nodes in a two node HV failover cluster. (LAB based on iSCSI shared storage)DPM2012SP1 with latest rollups is still not able to backup a single VM on this cluster.DPM encountered a retryable VSS error…
KB2848344 is titled... [Lire la suite]

KB ID: 1751Product: Veeam Backup & ReplicationVersion: 6.5.0.128Published: 2013-04-29Created: 2013-04-29Last Modified: 2013-04-29
Problem:
These are the issues resolved by the Patch 3 for Veeam Backup version 6.5.0.106 / 6.5.0.109 / 6.5.0.128. This patch is cumulative and contains fixes from Patch 1.
Cause:
Please confirm you are running version 6.5.0.106/6.5.0.109/6.5.0.128 prior to applying this patch. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup &... [Lire la suite]

Patch management for ESXi is very different compared to traditional operating system patches, where incremental updates are made to the base operating system and thus increasing the disk footprint for each patch update. For the ESXi hypervisor, when a patch is applied, the entire ESXi image also known as an Image Profile is replaced. This means that each time you patch or upgrade your ESXi host, you are not adding on top of the original installation size.
As part of the ESXi architecture, there are two... [Lire la suite]